About this RSS feeds directory

rss.mobi is a public list of RSS feeds, built to be read on a phone. Anyone can add a feed, and anyone can find one and follow it in the reader they already use.

Adding a feed

Paste a site or feed address on the submit page. RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, Atom and JSON Feed are all read. There is no account and no review queue: a feed that can be read, has at least one post and is not spam is published at once. Whoever submits it gets a private edit link to change its topics or take it down.

What is shown

The feed's title, description and the latest posts it publishes: each post's title, a short excerpt, its date and a link to the original. Posts older than ninety days drop out.

A copy of every feed

Every feed's page offers an RSS address of its own at rss.mobi to follow in any reader. It carries what the original carries — whole posts, pictures, a podcast's episodes — read from the original when a reader asks, never more than five minutes old, and never stored. The one who submitted a feed can keep its copy to excerpts from their edit link.

How feeds are checked

A feed people read is fetched at least once an hour — every quarter hour if it posts several times a day — and one nobody has opened for a day four times less often, by a crawler that identifies itself as rss.mobi/1.0 (+https://rss.mobi/about/). It sends the ETag and Last-Modified the site gave last time, so an unchanged feed costs a 304 and nothing else. A feed that fails is tried less and less often, and after ten failures in a row it is retired.

Readers such as Feedly and Inoreader say in their user agent how many people follow a feed. When they fetch a copy from rss.mobi, that number is passed on to the original the same way (; 16 subscribers at the end of ours), so a publisher's count of followers stays whole.

How topic lists are ranked

Each topic lists its best RSS feeds first. A feed ranks higher the more people follow it in their readers — the counts those readers report — and the more regularly it posts, and it sinks after two weeks without a post. Posting more than twice a day earns nothing extra. The ranks are worked out again after every check, so the lists move by the hour. Nobody can pay for a place.

Taking a feed down

If you run a site and do not want its feed here, open the feed's page and use Report a problem → I own this site, or write torss-mobi@vvm.space. You can also block the user agent above; a feed that keeps refusing is retired on its own.

For developers

The directory is available as JSON at /api/v1/feeds, and each feed at /api/v1/feeds/<slug>. No key is needed to read; a key for more requests and every field is described on theAPI page.

The code that runs this RSS feeds directory is open source under the AGPL-3.0, atgithub.com/dstengine/rss-mobi. Issues and pull requests are welcome.